Maysei Mazko's Son Arrested In Brest At Night
- 5.04.2019, 9:52
Dzianis Mazko was detained for 72 hours in the criminal case against his father.
“In the evening of April 4, Dzianis Mazko’s construction site in the village of Telma was searched by the riot police and a service dog. They did not find or seize anything. But Dzianis was taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee department, which is located in the Maskouski District Department of Internal Affairs. His relatives followed him. At 1.30 it became known that he was detained for 72 hours in a criminal case against his father, Maysei Mazko,” – human rights activist Raman Kisliak told the Brest Newspaper in the morning of April 5.
According to him, now his relatives have gone to the IC to find out the details.
We remind that on April 3, a criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 295 “Illegal actions with regard to firearms, ammunition and explosives” of the Criminal Code against Dzianis’ father, the opponent of the battery plant construction, Maysei Mazko. From the night of April 3, the 62-year-old man has been kept in the detention center of the Leninski district police department.
On April 2, the police found in Maysei Mazko’s car cartridges, a briquette of an unidentified substance, as well as an object similar in appearance to the fuse of an explosive device. Later, the IC informed that the cartridges were the ammunition for several types of pistols, rifles, carbines and shotguns. A special examination was to determine whether the briquette is an explosive.
The car that Maysei Mazko was driving, was not his, but a company car, belonging to the women's monastery in the Brest Fortress, in which the man serves as a provisor.
In the morning and evening of April 3, searches were conducted in the house where the son, Dzianis Mazko, lives, and in Maysei Mazko’s house. Nothing was seized then.
After Maysei Mazko’s arrest, relatives stated that for the last few days, Maysei had been spied on.
Maysei Mazko, a resident of the village of Telma in Brest region, is a member of the initiative group against building the battery factory near Brest. For more than a year, the initiative group of Brest residents and residents of the region, as well as its supporters, have reported numerous violations at different stages of the construction. Representatives of the plant, environmental organizations and officials insist that the fears are groundless and there are no violations.
The launch of the battery factory’s full production cycle was originally planned for August 2018, then for the end of the year. According to the latest data, the first batch of products was supposed to be released at the battery factory in March of this year. According to official information, the capacity of the enterprise at the initial stage will be 1 million batteries per year, and will subsequently be doubled.